Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-04-01

SOLDlF OF GEN. LOGAN IN The
MEXICAN WAR-OTHER OLD MEN
PASSED AWAY.
&C., &C, sc.
On Saturday morning last, between 9
and 10 o'clock, at the residence of Mi.
Jere M. Johnston, on Augusta street,
James M. Whaley, venerable and we'll
known tailor, died suddenly, at the age of
seventy four. He had been ailing for the
last two weeks, but not seriously. He was
in the sitting room after breakfast when a
lady member of the Good Templars Lodge
to which he belonged, called to ask after
him. She was told he was in the sitting
room and went there. She came out say
ing he was asleep and she could not wake
him up. 1t was found that he had died sit
ting in an armchair, with his feet on a
lower chair. Disease of the heart was the
cause. Mr.. Whaley was from Frsdericks-
burg and after learning his trade had been
resident of many parts of the United
States. His information was extensive and
his memory wonderful. It has not been
very long since at meeting Of the Good
Templars Lodge he recited from memory
the whole of play from Shakespeare.
He was boy at school in Fredericks
burg when Gen. Lafayette visited that
city in 1924. The master of the school,
boys, invited the General to witness an
exhibition of his scholars. The General
came and was much pleased with the en-
tertainment. The boy who stood the eX-
animation best on that occasion, Mr..
Whaley said, was young Herndon, who
afterwards became naval officer and
went down in the steamship Central
America.
When the civil war came on, Mr.. Whaley
enlisted in the Confederate States Navy
and served on the steamer Patrick Henry,
circumstance that induced his compa-
mons to give him the title Of ''Commo-
dore.n After the war he resumed his
wandering life, but for the last five or SIX
years he had settled down in Staunton
where he was q great favorite. Gentle,
unobtrusive, full of information, and with
an entertaining personal "reminiscences of
events far in the past, he was an interest
ing companion. In politics he was well
posted from the time Of Andrew Jackson,
whose inauguration he witnessed, down to
the present time.
His funeral took place from the resi-
dence of Mr.. Johnston On Sunday after
noon. and the services were conducted by
Rev. DR.. Nelson. The pall-bearers were
Capt. A. Fl. Fultz and W. W. Gibbs, of
Mountain City Lodge of I. o. G. T.;
Charles Gregory and Levi Mcclure. of AS
sembly No. 2711 K. Of L.. Of which the
deceased was member; Assistant Cashier
Jos. e. Rollins, OF the National Valley
Bank, who had known the old man
in youth in Fredericksburg; M. f. Nc
Namara, B. j. Arnall, and John W.
Campbell.
Though it was raining steadily, the pro-
cession which accompanied the remains on
foot to the grave must have numbered
five or six hundred. The line,
which was headed by the StoneWall
Brigade Band, had in its ranks the Staun-
ton Artillery, Capt J. T. Long; Mountain
City Lodge of I. o. G. T., Including a
large number of lady members); Assem-
blies Nos. 2711 and 1902 K. of l.; Assem-
bly, No. 5267 K. of L., (colored), which had
been invited by the sister Assembly No.
.2711 to participate, and large number OF
citizens who marched out to the cemetery.
The last days of the old man were spent
among friends with whom he was great
fayorite, and Mr.. Johnston and his wife
in whose house he died, treated him with
The kindness of one Of the family.
Suitable memorial resolutions prepared
by a committee-Messrs. J. A. SheWey,
M. B. Stoddard and Daniel Crimmens,
were adopted by Stanton Assembly No.
2711, K. of L.
MEXICAN VOLUNTEER GONE.
Abraham Dillingham; Cullen, a veteran
of the Mexican war who served in the
same company with the late Gen. John A
Logan, died IN this county on the 10Th OF
March, at the residence Of his half-sister
aged seventy four years. He was native
of Buncombe county, N. G., but spent
most of his boyhood near Port Republic
Rockingham. lis father married second
Sime, his second wife being Miss Katie
a3arnhart, an aunt of G.. Barnhart in this
county. When twenty-five years Of age
Mr.. Cullen went 80 Illinois, and when tbs
Mexican war came On he enlisted in The
same company with John A. Logan an6
under the command Of Gen. Shields. Hif
regiment was shipped from New Orleans
in sailing vessel called the 'Sea Lion
He was in the battles of Jalapa, Cerrt
Gordo, and others, and in tile triumpha
entry into the city of Mexico. WheI
peace was declared he returned to Illinois
and then to Virginia where he married
Catharine BarnharG, who but lately died
During the civil war he was the of1icia
postmaster at New Hope, in this county
He was a Democrat and boasted that ii
his long life he had never voted any Other
ticket. He was an applicant for a pension
under the new bill but death took the
brave old soldier away, while the paper
were being prepared. One Of the paper
is an old yellow-stained letter written BY
him April %, 1917, just after the battle O
Cerro Gordo, giving some Illinois friend
an account of it. 1t says: 1--WE attacked
the Mexlcans and drove Santa Anna S,
hard that we got his cork leg which VI
have ia our company and We intend bring
ing it with us 70 Illinois,
OTHER DEATHS.
Two other deaths of aged men have oc-
Cured in the neighborhood of New Hop'
recently. James Bunch. ST., an old mem
Der of the Masonic order and who hat
taken some of the high degrees, died a
Piedmont, aged eighty-four years, ant